I am having this sort of conversation a lot now. Friends and family glaze over and argue, saying things like, "yes, but...", or "what about carbon", the "planet", "greedy industrialists", or the ultimate, "I've bought an EV", as if that makes everything alright now. Reading the eco-drivel from the Gaurdian is depressing enough but the comments underneath are enough to make you give up on humanity - they just refuse to get it.
I wonder where the art gallery 'Just Stop Oil' vandals are these days... probably planning on their iPhone made from hydrocarbons.
Failure to consider windless nights has enabled the net zero program to dissipate trillions of dollars around the Western world, delivering more expensive and less reliable power with catastrophic environmental impacts.
Second, the story about the meteorologists who failed to issue wind drought warnings to avert the wind and solar disaster. And the independent Australian wind-watchers who sounded the alarm over a decade ago, to no effect.
Was this criminal negligence or a plan by the architects of the climate alarm industry to enable the west to strangle our productive capacity with unreliable energy?
Third, why did governments fail to check the supply chain to the wind and solar factories that they subsidised and supported to drive reliable power out of the grid? Imagine subsidising a steel company without checking the supply chains for the inputs of coal, iron ore and limestone?
And a word on warming alarmism. What is the problem with warming? Throughout recorded history, warm times have been good, and the warming since the Little Ice Age has been unequivocally beneficial. We are still some degrees short of the best times for life on Earth during the Roman and medieval warm periods. If we are lucky, we may get two or three more degrees of warming before we reach the tipping point and start the downhill run into the next ice age. Just read a good book about climate science and relax.
Die-hard socialists (communists?) to their core, Labor governments are not that fussed about those who work for themselves (SMEs) nor the private sector because their Utopian vision is an Australia of public servants. Trouble is, they haven't joined the dots: how is their army of supporters going to cope without their computers, printers, chairs, desks, trains, buses, cars, scooters, coffee machines, refrigerators, and the electricity to power all this stuff? The simplicity of logic is lost on Bowen, Albo and the rest of the numpties, including the virtue-signalling Teals and their evil sister, the Greens. Without hydrocarbons to feed us, fuel us, defend us, heal us, shelter us, we die... slowly but surely. How is it possible that so many Australians believe in fairies at the bottom of the garden, in mythologies and ideologies over scientific facts?
“Perhaps the only virtue of the current liquid fuel crisis is in forcing a rethink. The subtext of this budget is a government being confronted by the realisation that it lives in a material world.” I hope and pray this proves to be correct, although given the extent to which the current Labor government is ideologically captured raises serious doubt that Albo, Chalmers & Bowen will ‘see the light’ of reason on this subject.
Thanks Chris. I dream of the day when our political and media class get out of their sheltered workshops long enough to realise that Energy Security, Food Security, Economic Security and National Security are all connected.
Sadly, having been overwhelmed with the lie, "Follow the science" during covid, as doctors, politicians professors etc stood on TV to contradict real scientific knowledge and deliberately lied to force the covid agenda and all the deaths and cripples since, most of us are now very careful every time science is mentioned.
Known domestic oil resources do not justify new refineries. Explore for more by all means, but identify sufficient reserves before building refineries. No strategic advantage in refineries which rely on imported crude.
I thought the Morrison’s government handling of a respiratory virus and its consequences was bad enough and that all needs a reckoning. But this bunch of Marxist fools that lie and lie then lie some more to keep their Islamist and Chinese mates happy at our expense are in another league and step down into the abyss.
We can’t trust the healthcare system and we definitely cannot trust science which is related.
Yes, it takes a brain dead Treasury and brain dead politicians to turn a country blessed with the highest per capita land and resource endowment in the world into a rising cost of living country with declining living standards for the next generation. Back in the sixties one income could support a family and pay the mortgage to buy a home. Not now.
The by election in Farrer seems to have come down to a very able One Nation candidate or a very well know Teal candidate who is running as an independent.
Last election, the so called independent won all the election booths in Albury, the biggest population center in this vast seat. I was told she had $50,000 from billionaire funder Simon Holmes A Court who gets lots of govt funding subsidies for his " renewable" energy investments. She isn't talking about our lack of energy but attacking One Nation and wanting another new hospital for Albury.
The liberal candidate is good but the last incompetent liberal over her 25 year term has permanently destroyed all support for the liberal party. Many say I'm never voting Liberal again.
I am having this sort of conversation a lot now. Friends and family glaze over and argue, saying things like, "yes, but...", or "what about carbon", the "planet", "greedy industrialists", or the ultimate, "I've bought an EV", as if that makes everything alright now. Reading the eco-drivel from the Gaurdian is depressing enough but the comments underneath are enough to make you give up on humanity - they just refuse to get it.
I wonder where the art gallery 'Just Stop Oil' vandals are these days... probably planning on their iPhone made from hydrocarbons.
Three stories that that are too hot for most journalists to handle.
The story about windless nights to explain that the transition to wind and solar can't happen and it should never have been attempted.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/wind-and-solar-aint-capacity
Failure to consider windless nights has enabled the net zero program to dissipate trillions of dollars around the Western world, delivering more expensive and less reliable power with catastrophic environmental impacts.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/how-much-would-you-be-prepared-to
Second, the story about the meteorologists who failed to issue wind drought warnings to avert the wind and solar disaster. And the independent Australian wind-watchers who sounded the alarm over a decade ago, to no effect.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/the-late-discovery-of-wind-droughts
Was this criminal negligence or a plan by the architects of the climate alarm industry to enable the west to strangle our productive capacity with unreliable energy?
Third, why did governments fail to check the supply chain to the wind and solar factories that they subsidised and supported to drive reliable power out of the grid? Imagine subsidising a steel company without checking the supply chains for the inputs of coal, iron ore and limestone?
And a word on warming alarmism. What is the problem with warming? Throughout recorded history, warm times have been good, and the warming since the Little Ice Age has been unequivocally beneficial. We are still some degrees short of the best times for life on Earth during the Roman and medieval warm periods. If we are lucky, we may get two or three more degrees of warming before we reach the tipping point and start the downhill run into the next ice age. Just read a good book about climate science and relax.
https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=Rafe+Champion&i=stripbooks&crid=GZ66NWUYZ193&sprefix=rafe+champion%2Cstripbooks%2C262&ref=nb_sb_noss
Die-hard socialists (communists?) to their core, Labor governments are not that fussed about those who work for themselves (SMEs) nor the private sector because their Utopian vision is an Australia of public servants. Trouble is, they haven't joined the dots: how is their army of supporters going to cope without their computers, printers, chairs, desks, trains, buses, cars, scooters, coffee machines, refrigerators, and the electricity to power all this stuff? The simplicity of logic is lost on Bowen, Albo and the rest of the numpties, including the virtue-signalling Teals and their evil sister, the Greens. Without hydrocarbons to feed us, fuel us, defend us, heal us, shelter us, we die... slowly but surely. How is it possible that so many Australians believe in fairies at the bottom of the garden, in mythologies and ideologies over scientific facts?
“Perhaps the only virtue of the current liquid fuel crisis is in forcing a rethink. The subtext of this budget is a government being confronted by the realisation that it lives in a material world.” I hope and pray this proves to be correct, although given the extent to which the current Labor government is ideologically captured raises serious doubt that Albo, Chalmers & Bowen will ‘see the light’ of reason on this subject.
You mean increased taxes in the upcoming budget
Lets hope for the rethink. Yes, another refinery and start drilling. Supplement diesel with natural gas to run heavy transport.
Thanks Chris. I dream of the day when our political and media class get out of their sheltered workshops long enough to realise that Energy Security, Food Security, Economic Security and National Security are all connected.
Sadly, having been overwhelmed with the lie, "Follow the science" during covid, as doctors, politicians professors etc stood on TV to contradict real scientific knowledge and deliberately lied to force the covid agenda and all the deaths and cripples since, most of us are now very careful every time science is mentioned.
Known domestic oil resources do not justify new refineries. Explore for more by all means, but identify sufficient reserves before building refineries. No strategic advantage in refineries which rely on imported crude.
I thought the Morrison’s government handling of a respiratory virus and its consequences was bad enough and that all needs a reckoning. But this bunch of Marxist fools that lie and lie then lie some more to keep their Islamist and Chinese mates happy at our expense are in another league and step down into the abyss.
We can’t trust the healthcare system and we definitely cannot trust science which is related.
Yes, it takes a brain dead Treasury and brain dead politicians to turn a country blessed with the highest per capita land and resource endowment in the world into a rising cost of living country with declining living standards for the next generation. Back in the sixties one income could support a family and pay the mortgage to buy a home. Not now.
Warren Hogan spoke very plainly on the economy at the Sydney Institute.Wortb a listen
I’ll push my hobby horse of a use of our coal for fuel conversion - at least as an emergency reserve operated by Defence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_liquefaction?wprov=sfti1#
And for a cheap natural battery there’s where heat can be returned at night via molten salt storage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power?wprov=sfti1
The by election in Farrer seems to have come down to a very able One Nation candidate or a very well know Teal candidate who is running as an independent.
Last election, the so called independent won all the election booths in Albury, the biggest population center in this vast seat. I was told she had $50,000 from billionaire funder Simon Holmes A Court who gets lots of govt funding subsidies for his " renewable" energy investments. She isn't talking about our lack of energy but attacking One Nation and wanting another new hospital for Albury.
The liberal candidate is good but the last incompetent liberal over her 25 year term has permanently destroyed all support for the liberal party. Many say I'm never voting Liberal again.